2024年6月25日 · Selective Service registration for women has been debated for decades, and now it's surfacing again in Congress, as volunteers for military service decline.

2024年6月24日 · In the event that the law is changed to include registering women, "Selective Service is prepared to expand registration," the website reads. The Senate Armed Forces Committee has since created...

As of January 2016, there has been no decision to require females to register with Selective Service, or be subject to a future military draft. Selective Service continues to register only men, ages 18 through 25.

2024年12月5日 · Eight Republican senators sent a letter to the top negotiators for the annual defense bill asking them to take out a provision that would require women to register for the Selective Service...

2024年6月23日 · Last week, a Senate committee approved a version of a Pentagon policy that would extend this automatic registration to women. If the amended policy were to become law, women in the following...

2024年11月4日 · The topic of women’s participation in the Selective Service System has been a subject of debate and discussion in recent years. As of now, the Selective Service System requires all male U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 to register for potential military service. However, the question of whether women should also be required to register has …

2025年1月29日 · Section 598A would have required automatic Selective Service registration for “every citizen” (to include women) and every legal resident subject to the registration requirements and would not have applied to lawful non-immigrants.

2020年9月14日 · NDAA did not require women to register with the Selective Service, it created a commission—the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service—to consider that and other issues. The Commission and Its Report

2024年6月19日 · Though a Senate committee approved a bill that would require women to register for the Selective Service, the bill is still far from becoming law. It must still be approved by both chambers...

2024年6月24日 · In the event that the law is changed to include registering women, "Selective Service is prepared to expand registration," the website reads. The Senate Armed Forces Committee has since...

2021年1月8日 · National experts agree: A congressional commission formed to study the Selective Service System recommended that Congress update the Military Selective Service Act to allow women to be registered, too, and the Department of Defense has advised Congress that doing so would promote military preparedness — as well as fairness.

2021年9月28日 · Under this bill, next season’s WNBA players would no longer be the only women declaring for a draft. Since 1980, all American men have been required to register with the Selective Service System for a potential military draft. Men must register within 30 days of turning 18, or else they can be jailed up to five years and fined up to $250,000.

Women are exempt from registering with the Selective Service. However, in July 2021, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) voted in favor of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would require both men and women to register.

The Military Selective Service Act, as it is written, only authorizes the registration of “male persons”. In order for the Selective Service to be authorized to register women, Congress would have to pass legislation amending the current law. Learn More

2021年4月8日 · Given the expansion of women’s roles in the military, it’s time to include them in the Selective Service System registration alongside their male counterparts while there’s no looming requirement on the horizon to invoke the draft for a full wartime mobilization.

2021年7月23日 · Capitol Hill -- A U.S. Senate committee has approved legislation that would, if enacted, require young women to register for Selective Service alongside men, and in the rare event of a war or other national emergency, be drafted for the first time in the nation’s history.

2021年12月7日 · Women will not have to sign up for a potential draft any time soon after an effort to add them to the Selective Service System was dropped from a sweeping defense bill.

Now that the Department of Defense has officially opened all combat jobs to women, the requirement for women to register for the Selective Service — the draft — is likely inevitable.

2019年2月26日 · A federal judge's decision Friday that the law requiring men -- but not women -- to register for a U.S. military draft is unconstitutional has no immediate impact on women or the U.S....

2021年7月22日 · The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) approved by the committee behind closed doors Wednesday “amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for...

2021年11月23日 · When Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess, they will be working overtime to approve the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, a must-pass national security package. It includes an amendment...

2025年1月9日 · Nearly 10,000 women signed up for active duty in 2024, an 18% jump from the previous year, while male recruitment increased by just 8%, the data shows. The hike comes as the service continues to ...